Kamchatka Peninsula facts for kids

Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. The pink area is the Kamchatka Krai which includes some of the mainland to the north.

The Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian: полуо́стров Камча́тка, poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in eastern Russia. It is 1,250 kilometres (780 mi) long. It covers about 270,000 km² (100,000 sq mi). It is between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk.

Kamchatka has the Volcanoes of Kamchatka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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• Kamchatka in Full Circle with Michael Pailin. BBC tv. [1]

Images for kids

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  Topography of the Kamchatka Peninsula

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  The eruption of Klyuchevskaya Sopka

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  Illustration from Stepan Krasheninnikov's Account of the Land of Kamchatka (1755)

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  Three Brothers rocks in the Avacha Bay

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  Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

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  Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806, National Museum in Warsaw

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  Kamchatka Peninsula surrounded by algal bloom in 2013

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  A Kamchatka brown bear in the spring

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  Opala volcano in the southern part of Kamchatka.

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  The lake-filled Akademia Nauk caldera, seen here from the north with Karymsky volcano in the foreground.

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  Koryaksky volcano towering over Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

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  One of the most elegant Kamchatka volcanoes – Kronotsky

See also

In Spanish: Península de Kamchatka para niños